Tunisia opens its largest national Museum of Modern Art

After three years of preparation, Tunis inaugurated on Thursday the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Tunisian City of Culture. Tunisian Prime Minister Najla Boudin supervised the official opening of the museum, which will open to the public on September 10. The opening included art exhibition entitled “Plastic Arts in Tunisia, a Journey with the National History 1850-2021″, showcasing about 400 Tunisian artworks such as painting, sculpture, weaving, photography, engraving and other forms of contemporary art. Mohamed Hashisha, the museum’s director, told A24 that this is Tunisia’s largest plastic arts exhibition as the artworks on display represent different periods of the country, including colonialism, the Tunisian school, abstraction, weaving and its development in the 1990s. He urged all segments of society, including children and youth, to participate in the exhibition and take advantage of this opportunity.